NEKOPARA Vol. 1 - 18+ Adult Only Content

[󠁳 ⁧Silverwing]

How do i play this? I don't see it in my librery even tho i have it bought, whenever i click play game on it, it just boots up the normal NEKOPARA Bol. 1 game.

[Mysterio28]

Those scenes wouldn't show up right away. Fastest way to see if it's installed correctly is by launching the game, then click on Config, then "Effect&Sound", and in that tab is a section called "effect setting". Under that should be a option for the h-scenes. If you see it then you should be good to go.

[fllthdcrb]

It's a DLC. Do DLCs ever show up as separate games in the Library.

[󠁳 ⁧Silverwing]

Originally posted by fllthdcrb:

It's a DLC. Do DLCs ever show up as separate games in the Library.

With ARK, i have an option to either play the DLC or the regular game

[fllthdcrb]

Originally posted by 🤍⁧⁧ Tenshi:

With ARK, i have an option to either play the DLC or the regular game

But can you launch the DLC straight from the Steam client, or is that option something you find inside the game?

[󠁳 ⁧Silverwing]

When im in game i have an option to play the DLC, i dont 100% remember about the client but i think i can launch it through the client too

[fllthdcrb]

Originally posted by 🤍⁧⁧ Tenshi:

When im in game i have an option to play the DLC, i dont 100% remember about the client but i think i can launch it through the client too

Well, I'm thinking that you can't. As far as I can tell, DLCs only show up when you view the properties of a game, not in the Library. If you bother to actually check for ARK, feel free to correct me. But in any case, what we have here is typical of how it is with visual novels when there is an adult version and a non-adult version: one has the adult content (most often H-scenes, but sometimes other things like CGs), and the other doesn't, and there isn't an obvious indication.

With Nekopara, there is a Steam version, and a full version (sold outside Steam) with all the content in it. The 18+ DLC effectively turns the Steam version into the full version. It is not a separately playable thing; it integrates content into the story. And the same thing goes for most visual novels and games with 18+ patches/DLC.

[󠁳 ⁧Silverwing]

Originally posted by fllthdcrb:

Originally posted by 🤍⁧⁧ Tenshi:

When im in game i have an option to play the DLC, i dont 100% remember about the client but i think i can launch it through the client too

Well, I'm thinking that you can't. As far as I can tell, DLCs only show up when you view the properties of a game, not in the Library. If you bother to actually check for ARK, feel free to correct me. But in any case, what we have here is typical of how it is with visual novels when there is an adult version and a non-adult version: one has the adult content (most often H-scenes, but sometimes other things like CGs), and the other doesn't, and there isn't an obvious indication.

With Nekopara, there is a Steam version, and a full version (sold outside Steam) with all the content in it. The 18+ DLC effectively turns the Steam version into the full version. It is not a separately playable thing; it integrates content into the story. And the same thing goes for most visual novels and games with 18+ patches/DLC.

There is jut no way of being able to tell if you're playing the dlc or not, with ark dlc its easy to tell because u know which game ur booting up. And i remeber when i launch a dlc i get different main menu, so it probably indeed can be launched by the client. Or anyway, even if u dont do that, when u launch the main game, u can select which one u wanna play. But here there is no way of telling what your're playing. I even asked a friend for help and he had no idea.

[fllthdcrb]

Originally posted by 🤍⁧⁧ Tenshi:

There is jut no way of being able to tell if you're playing the dlc or not, with ark dlc its easy to tell because u know which game ur booting up. And i remeber when i launch a dlc i get different main menu, so it probably indeed can be launched by the client. Or anyway, even if u dont do that, when u launch the main game, u can select which one u wanna play. But here there is no way of telling what your're playing. I even asked a friend for help and he had no idea.

Externally, no, there is no obvious way to tell (though see below). What you need to understand is that, unlike an expansion pack, this DLC doesn't make Nekopara into a different game with a different story. It's the same story, just with some more things depicted (and a few pictures drawn differently), and those things that were already depicted are depicted in almost (like >99.9%) exactly the same way.

It is, however, possible to tell without starting it, in this case. The full version, or the Steam version + DLC includes a file called "adultsonly.xp3" (and its .sig file). That's literally all that is changed; on start, the game tries to load that file, and if it succeeds, you get the full content, while if it can't find it, you get the censored version.

As far as switching easily, it seems it did not occur to NEKO WORKs that anyone would want to do that, so they didn't implement any sort of in-game switch for it. What you can do is remove the aforementioned file (this works even for the non-Steam version), either by renaming it to something without the ".xp3" extension or moving it to some other folder, or the reverse. Or, in the Steam client, you can switch the DLC on and off in the properties (right-click on the game in the Library, select Properties…, then go to the DLC tab). You'll need to restart the game if it's currently running.

EDIT: Also, the same applies to Vol. 2 and Vol. 4. Not completely to Vol. 3, as they tried out a different engine, which has a different file structure. It's harder to look at the files and tell whether the DLC is present. At least I've never figured it out. However, the sizes must be different, at least. Switching the DLC from the Steam client still works, of course. Vol. 0 and Extra have no adult content to begin with, so they are irrelevant to this.